What about the SOTA/Portalarium team are you thankful for?

I am thankful for the crowdfunding/crowdsourcing route the SOTA/Portalarium team took

I am thankful for the add_on store available on the SOTA website even with its limited features

I am thankful for the great community of backers SOTA has with all their divergent perspectives

 

As with any game I backed through KS, I am thankful for the team allowing backers to pledge for their support in making a game happen. Thankful for them allowing us to see behind the scenes on what developing is really like. Thankful to them for allowing us to have input into the design process (minimal at times). And just thankful to them for being awesome!

 

I am thankful for Stephen Daniele's charisma. Those big sad puppy dog eyes and general well being make me want to save orphan dolphins from fires.

 

The opportunity to contribute to development and in some ways even having a direct influence on the game's design. (The actually team listens and responds).

 

I'm thankful for all the hard work the SOTA team is putting into this game to make it the funnest game I've ever played.
I'm thankful for the opportunity to be apart of the creation of this 'pioneer' of the new genre of lagless/wonderful gaming played how I want to play it.
I'm thankful for the updates and the continuous information they give us each week on the game and exciting me to the max!

This is going to be an EPIC game!

 

Thankful for their efforts to bring the words interesting and fun back to my RPG gaming world!

 

Real and regular interaction with the community.

 

I guess I'm thankful that they opened the forums a year and a half before the game is supposed to go live, nice to get to know people instead of like every other game where you just show up as a stranger.

Also this gives us a chance at every investment level to feel more like the game is ours.

 

Thankful for being involved in a project that requires skills that are fun and interesting to be part of and watch:

thinking out of the box
imagination
thinking from different perspectives
social skills
architecture
interior design
process thinking
animation
medieval knowledge
fashion and design
concept art
photoshop
level design
web design
rustic dragoness
toast inventor
do not forget christmas presents skill
Riot prevention skills
community manager
Unity users
Heraldry creator
dual map and map designer
Watch out what you say and do not leak skill
bug hunter
Combat system inventors
Comedian
Musicians
kill the feature monster skill
Luminatornes
marketing
Video, demo creation
PvP-PvE counselor
Linguistics
do not take all for granted skill
Coffee man in the morning
Stop looking during work on the forums skill
Reporter
Weapon designer
Event manager
Politician
Toilet abuser ( to much coffee)
engineer
Business manager
Stand up poster
Parking lot abuser
Pizza man caller
read the forum rules skill
Reading to the fans and story creation ( Tracy)
Jam Session creators
Chris skill (unique skill)
Richard Garriots ultimate game creator skills
DarkStarr influence skills
All the behind the curtains Portalarium employee skills
All the community fan skills
stop reading my crap and press the pledge button skill

and often forgotten:

The skills of all the wives,husband and families who support us crazy game creators, backers and fans involved in this




That all i find cool!

 

I would like to thank the entire staff for listening to concerns of the community and taking them seriously, this is the difference that is going to make this game and community even more amazing.
I would like to thank support for responding so incredibly fast.
Thank you for the Dev Hangout's and Pen of the Avatar.
Thank you for the contests.
Thank you for helping to bring excitement back to PC gaming.

Special thanks to: tphilipp, Lum, DarkStarr, RG, FireLotus and caravaggiosWolf.

I am also thankful that someone started this thread.

 

Never had a chance to look inside a game like this so very thankful for that - mainly just been a casual gamer so far.
Thankful for hearing the variety of perspectives that a game like this generates from so many different types of people.
Thankful for the opportunity to recapture the magic of solid RPG's.

 

I'm thankful for the team putting in so much hard work to create Richard LB's vision for the best RPG and thankful that they have allowed me as a backer to be such a big part of the process..

 

I appreciate RG's vision in creating this game.

 

Well... I just upgraded to Lord because I have been thoroughly impressed with their desire to take feedback from their backers. I'm thankful that this game is literally going down the list that a buddy of mine made about 3 years ago... "what do we want in a game" and we haven't been able to find it... they might have just found that list and started going top to bottom. Appreciate the quality communication and hope they keep up the hard work of filtering through feedback!

 

Bringing something fresh to the table that we haven't seen in many years.
Great group of developers that are willing to engage with the community and bringing a bunch of like minded people together.